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YouTube Testing A Feature to Auto-Translate Video Titles to Users Preferred Language

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YouTube is testing a new feature that will allow users to see content like video titles, descriptions, captions, and more to their preferred native language.

The feature is currently in Phase I of testing and as of now it translates from English to Portuguese and Turkish. This features works well on both web and phone apps. YouTube has not disclosed the exact reason for this feature but, increasing their global reach might be one agenda for the move.

As of now, YouTube does show results in local languages even when searched with English texts, although the algorithm does under-stably mess up every now and then.

Some interesting facts about YouTube

YouTube
  • Founded on February 14, 2005, by three ex-PayPal employees.
  • Only 18 months after YouTube was founded, Google bought it for $1.65 billion in stocks.
  • There are over one billion users on the video watching platform, which is nearly one-third of everyone on the Internet.
  • Every minute, over 100 hours of video is uploaded to the platform.
  • Every month, users on the platform watch 6 billion hours of videos per month, and 4 billion videos every day.
  • The most popular tutorial that is searched for is “How to kiss.” The second most-searched-for tutorial is “how to tie a tie.”
  • The most popular topic that is searched for is, of course, music!
  • The longest video on YouTube is 571 hours, 1 minute, and 41 seconds long. That’s the same as 23 days and 19 hours!
  • Every minute, there are 400 tweets going out that include a link to a YouTube video.
  • The first world leader to create a YouTube channel was the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair who made his account in 2007.
  • The video to first reach 1 billion views the fastest was Hello by Adele. It reached 1 billion views in 88 days.
  • The video to reach the most views in the first day of being uploaded is Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2. It reached 112 million views in 24 hours.
  • Ads Appeared in 2007
  • The popular video watching platform began on Valentine’s Day. The domain was bought on Valentine’s Day, 2005
  • It was originally designed to be a dating site.
  • You can make money from the platform based on the number of views and popularity of your videos.

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